There’s more to mathematics than rigour and proofs (2007)

Re:There’s more to mathematics than rigour and proofs (2007) by hebrox on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @04:12PM (#31088369)

I'm actually looking into this. Just an hour ago I mailed the local university that I won't be doing any courses there. My initial plan was to do a bachelor at around 50% speed. But working and having to girls (1,5 years and 3 weeks) makes that quite impossible. And looking at photos of myself at 17 makes me feel rather out of place at a university at age 42.

The Open University has an AI master that I'm thinking about right now. It has about 25% of the math that I want to learn, so that would be a good start. I did some prep work (an official high school math certificate) last few months and I noticed that I need a schedule to keep me going.

One thing that I'm quite certain about, is that doing math is the most important thing. And doing math leads to more doing math.

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Re:There’s more to mathematics than rigour and proofs (2007) by ivan_ah on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @09:35PM (#31091744)

RE learning math: you might want to check out some of my (non-free) books on MECH+CALC https://minireference.com/static/excerpts/noBSmathphys_v5_pr... and LINEAR ALGEBRA https://minireference.com/static/excerpts/noBSLA_v2_preview.... They are written especially with adult readers in mind.

RE schedule to keep you going: I've had some students use the concept maps as a "world map" (like the stage map in Mario World) and check off boxes as you progress through them (each concept corresponds to roughly one section). See https://minireference.com/static/conceptmaps/math_and_physic... and https://minireference.com/static/conceptmaps/linear_algebra_... I guess you could time-box these and do N of sections each week to make this into a schedule. Make sure you dedicate lots of time for the exercises/problems, because that's when the real learning happens...

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